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Ebbsfleet Garden City

Ebbsfleet Garden City. Image: Ebbsfleet Development Corporation.

Ebbsfleet is a government-sponsored new ‘Garden city’, the first in the UK for over 100 years, located in the South East of England on primarily brownfield land. The Ebbsfleet Garden City was also selected as one of ten National Health Service (NHS) England Healthy New Towns demonstration sites, leading to the adoption of a ‘Garden Grid’ design strategy that aims to transform the previously industrial landscape into a healthy environment. The Ebbsfleet Development Corporation (EDC) was established in 2015 by UK Central Government to lead delivery, receiving £200 million for infrastructure funding.(1)

This project is featured as one of our healthy urban development case studies.

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Barton Park

Pond and new housing at Barton Park. Image: Helen Pineo 2021.

Providing 885 new homes and community services, the Barton Park development is an extension to Barton, a neighbourhood of around 1,500 homes three miles from Oxford city centre. An important goal for Barton Park, one of the NHS Healthy New Towns demonstrator sites, was to integrate the new and existing communities through the provision of shared social infrastructure and amenities. The population of the Barton and nearby Sandhills wards faces significant health inequalities resulting from high deprivation. The project aims to provide equal opportunities to all Barton residents to achieve good physical and mental health outcomes.

This project is featured as one of our healthy urban development case studies and this case is adapted from the full version in Healthy Urbanism.(1)

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